The French fleet, led by Abraham Duquesne has an indecisive battle with
the Dutch (led by Admiral Ruyter) near Stromboli. Soon after,
Duquesne is more successful in a battle east of Sicily (off Etna).
Ruyter is wounded in the leg; he is killed after a botched attempt at amputation.

Jan Sobieski, elected by Polish nobles in 1674, is crowned King
of Poland. An Orttoman army of 200,000 invades
the Ukraine (a Polish possession at the time), but Sobieski defeats them
at Zorawno, following up on 1675's victory
at Lvov. Poland is given two-thirds of the Ukraine at the peace treaty
that follows. The treaty also allows Turkey to wage war against (Orthodox)
Russia.

The previous year, a cycle of colonists' theft and Indian raids has colonists
in a froth. Their anger causes them to make retaliatory attacks on
the wrong Indians, and call peace meetings they later turn into bloodbaths.

Governor Sir William Berkeley is having no success trying to calm things
down. In particular, his nephew Nathaniel Bacon has imprisoned
Appomattox Indians on trumped-up charges.

(March) Berkeley calls a Long Assemblywhich declares war on all
"bad" Indians, turning Virginia into an armed camp.

Taxes are raised to pay for all of the fortifications, turning popular
opinion against the government.

Bacon's faction begins raiding Indian villages against Berkeley's orders.
Berkeley leads a force to Henrico to arrest Bacon but he flees.

Bacon tries to get a pardon for his nephew if he will turn himself in,
but the House of Burgesses will have none of it.

Eventually, Berkeley has to flee to the Eastern Shore, and Bacon declares
the Virginia government illegitimate, and sets up a military regime, declaring
himself 'Generall by Consent of the People'. In the process of fortifying
Jamestown, he burns it to the ground.

(October) Bacon dies of conditions caused by poor personal hygiene.

Berkeley comes back, regains control, and hangs all of the rebel leaders.